Award-winning flight instructor Rich Stowell has condensed eight years and 2,000+ hours of experience teaching recoveries from spins and other unusual attitudes into a 240-page manual sprinkled with 128 illustrations.

Touted as the "definitive work on an important subject," the book provides a common sense treatment of many subjects inadequately addressed during the course of normal flight training. Several topics critical to safety are covered in detail: basic aerodynamics, turn dynamics, stall/spin dynamics, roll dynamics, glide performance, and off-airport landing scenarios.

Stowell unravels such perennial aviation mysteries as the intricate relationship between pitch and power, the significance of the V-g Diagram, the real cause of spins, the behavior of wingtip vortices, and the human factors influencing aeronautical decision-making. In the process, the reader learns simplified emergency strategies to cope with a host of in-flight maladies, including: spins and spirals, inverted attitudes, wake turbulence, control failures, and engine failures.

The timely information in this book is applicable to pilots at all levels of experience.

A newly released and thought provoking paper from award-winning Master Flight Instructor Rich Stowell identifying the first principles of light airplane flying.  Nine principles are offered, divided into the three categories:  Mindset, Motion, and Mechanics.

This paper is dedicated to pilots who,

• Are motivated to fly by the prospects of autonomy, mastery and purpose;
• Have a growth mindset, no matter their level of experience;
• Aspire to improve their skills with better tips, tricks, and techniques;
• Want deeper knowledge; to understand better, teach better, fly better.

The paper explores the principles vis-à-vis familiar concepts that stem from them, as well as examples of the principles applied during training.  Connections between the principles and representative examples of training content and activities are illustrated as well.

 Additionally, examples of the progression from the rote level of learning to the correlation level are presented within the framework of the nine principles.

The Wright Brothers gave us the gift of powered flight more than a century ago. But the gift has its limitations: potentially dangerous stalls and spins lurk beyond the critical angle of attack.

This book combines 100 years of light airplane research with practical knowledge about the post-stall environment into one of the most comprehensive guides to Stall/Spin Awareness available.

You'll learn: * Who's most at risk of a stall/spin accident * What your instructor may not know about stalls & spins * The physiology & human factors involved with spinning * Stall/spin dynamics & critical flight operations * Important advice from experts & researchers * The truth about manufacturer-supplied information * How to take charge of your stall/spin education -- The twelve most popular stall/spin myths exposed --

** Available to US Domestic Customers Only **